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Wednesday Landscapes, 10 May 2017


Leslie Reid

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You are invited to upload one or more of your landscape photos and, if you’d like, to accompany your image with some commentary: challenges you faced in making the image? your intent for the image? settings? post-processing decisions? why you did what you did? the place and time? or an aspect you’d like feedback on? And please feel free to ask questions of others who have posted images or to join the discussion. If you don’t feel like using words, that’s OK too—unaccompanied images (or unaccompanied words, for that matter) are also very much welcomed. As for the technicalities, the usual forum guidelines apply: files < 1 MB; image size <1000 px maximum dimension.

This is a beach just south of Trinidad in northwest California at an unusually low tide a couple of weeks ago (ISO 400, 18 mm, f/16, 1/200 s). There’s very little post-processing on this one, though I added a gradient at the bottom to lighten the shadow in the foreground (from a tree on the cliff above). I'd shot a number of frames featuring the large off-shore rock as the center of interest, but the frame I ended up liking the most treated the rock almost as an afterthought.

 

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A view of the Missouri River floodplain just north of Omaha, NE. I spent a brief day in the Midwest suffering from the intense 80-degree heat (it certainly felt like that after getting on a plane that morning in 40-degree Connecticut and doing fieldwork on some very sunny grassy hillsides). The image was taken in the early afternoon. I did very little to represent the warm, hazy mood of a warm spring day: I sharpened the foreground slightly and corrected a bit for vignetting to allow the eye to wander.

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Missouri River floodplain, Crescent, IA

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Christoph Geiss
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Late to the party due to P.net issues but I want to support this thread.

 

I wrestled with the dynamics on this one. I shot it with a Nikon D700 a couple of years back while road-tripping through Maine. I realized I'd struggle with it later but I couldn't resist the lure of the clouds. It had also been raining for the prior few days so it was good just to see the sun again. The camera was set to ISO 200, f13, 1/1600. I don't carry any neutral density filters with me but after these experiences I always tell myself, "I'll have to look into getting some for next time", and just never have.

 

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